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One of my 2015 goals was to add 5 new race medals to my collection. Mission accomplished! My first medal of the year didn’t come until May, when I ran the BMO Vancouver half marathon: Then came the Florida virtual half marathon: The PNE Donut Dash 5 km wins the prize for the cutest medal […] →Read more
With just 4.5 days left to go in 2015, I have 22 blog postings left to go ((Once I post this one.)) to reach my goal of 115 postings, so I’m going to see how many blog postings I can power through this afternoon. Apologies in advance for flooding your Twitter stream/Facebook feed/RSS feed! →Read more
I’m cooking beets for Christmas dinner. Wait, why did you think I had a big knife and red on my gloves? →Read more
For the official record ((My blog is the official record.)), the following baked goods were baked at the annual Snow family Christmas baking extravaganza 2015: My Mom: Tiger Cookies Cranberry Nut Clusters Fake Nanaimo Bars ((Which I’ve been referring to as “Parksville Bars”. Parksville is the town next to Nanaimo.)) Nancy (my sister): brown sugar […] →Read more
Whenever I visit my family, I get introduced to awesome new movies and videos ((See: Cats & Boots, Dumb Ways to Die, and Turbo, as just a few examples.)). Yesterday, my niece introduced me to this excellent parody of Adele’s Hello, which we have been walking around the house singing all day: Given that I’m currently […] →Read more
My baking plans for tomorrow include: shortbread cookies, the cookies that I’m legally obligated to make every Christmas amaretti, which I’ve never made before but expect to be delicious! I will report back once all the baking is complete! →Read more
So here I am at YVR, waiting for my flight to Toronto. It isn’t what I was expecting to be doing this Christmas, but, to use a phrase that I hate, it is what it is ((I mean, seriously, that phrase annoys the hell out of me. Of course it is what it is… it […] →Read more
I’ve been looking for something to hang on one of my living room walls for a while, but I hadn’t been able to find something I liked that was big enough to put on this big empty wall, with the exception of a $2200 piece that I saw at Granville Island, but I just couldn’t justify […] →Read more
Speaking of LitFest, I’ve been meaning to write a blog posting about Olga Kotelko since I learned about her at LitFest 2015… back in May! One of the events at LitFest 2015 was a talk by Olga’s co-author Roxanne Davies and her editor Michele Carter about the book “Olga – The O.K. Way to a Healthy, […] →Read more
LitFest New West – an “annual literary arts festival presented by The Arts Council of New Westminster ((Full disclosure: I’m on the board of directors of ACNW)), Royal City Literary Arts Society, New Westminster Public Library and Douglas College” – has just put out their call for workshop proposals! They are looking for proposals that are: centred […] →Read more